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Christmas Trees for a Cause - Wednesday, November 13, 2013
If you are planning on getting a Christmas tree this year, may we suggest that you get a Christmas tree AND support a great cause?
Please check out this link for more information on how you can give sweet little Poppy-pants a brighter Christmas. We can think of no better way to deck the halls than with a Poppy Tree!
Labels: Christmas, Christmas Tree, clients, Daymaker, donations, Events, Facebook, holiday, love, Poppy, Random act of kindness, Ritual, sale, staff, thank you
Randall Children's Hospital Toy Drive in Celebration of Mykayla! - Thursday, February 21, 2013
Friends of Ritual might remember that back in August, we held a head-shaving event for our seven year old friend, Mykayla. Two of our own staff members and countless other people- many of them complete strangers- came in to shave their heads in support of young Mykayla who has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. It was a fabulous event, for a great cause.
As Mykayla continues on with her cancer treatment at Randall Children's Hospital, we want to show her the continued love and support of the community she lives in, and we thought, how better that to collect toys for the hospital that she is receiving her treatments at? Randall Children's Hospital does great work and they have exceptional staff. One of our front desk coordinators, (Skyler) had open heart surgery there when she was a year and a half, so we know first hand what kind of work they put out!
We encourage YOU to get involved by checking out the WISH LIST and going on a shopping spree! Get you family involved, grab your friends and enlist the help of your co-workers. Everyone can appreciate how difficult it would be for a family to have a child in the hospital. Let's brighten the day of the many families and children for which this is a reality!
All toys can be brought to Ritual Hair Design between now and April 16th.
Labels: clients, Daymaker, donations, Events, Facebook, Leukemia, love, Mykayla, Randall Children's Hospital, Random act of kindness, Ritual, thank you, Toy Drive
My First Christmas Jar - Monday, December 24, 2012
Last year, my sister was really struggling
financially and so many of my friends, family and Ritual clients gave
generously so that she could provide a great Christmas for her kids. One
person (a stranger) heard what we were doing and stopped
by the salon with some toys and a heavy box for my sister and just said she wished my sister a Merry Christmas. She wouldn't leave her name, but
said she was friends of a friend of mine. Curious, I peeked in the
box. There was a little book called "The Christmas Jar" in it and the
rest was full of money, mostly coins with some bills. There was easily a
couple of hundred dollars in coins & bills. I couldn't believe that
a stranger would just give away so much money to a stranger. More
curious still, I went to the bookstore and found the book after
Christmas and read it. It inspired me to start my own Christmas Jar. A
jar that you throw your spare change into all throughout the year, with
the goal of finding someone to give it to right before Christmas.
Well,
today was the day. I didn't get fancy with my "jar", but it was nearly
full. I was counting on God to lead me to a person who either really
needed the money, or who really needed an act of kindness.
Skyler and I
went to Fred Meyer this morning and had barely gotten in the door when I
ran into a person who has been in the salon a couple of times. Her son
died this year and as you can imagine, she has had a difficult time
coping. In addition, her water heater went out and money is
excruciatingly tight. She started telling me how she had just purchased a
couple of gifts for her grand kids, but couldn't afford much. As she continued
talking, I could sense the sadness in her heart. I said, "I don't know
if you believe in God," to which she replied, "Yes, but God and I haven't been talking much lately."
"Well," I said, "I believe that God put you right here, right
now in front of me because I came here to give this jar to someone. I
didn't know who it was going to go to, but I knew it was going home with
someone from this store today. I think God intended it to go to you." There were tears, there were hugs and there were many thank you's.
I
cannot imagine how my Christmas could get any better than it was this
morning. I already have my next jar ready to be filled. I would
encourage you to find the book and to read it. Maybe you will feel
inspired to start your own jar.
Blessings to each and everyone of you this Christmas season.Labels: change, Christmas, Christmas jar, clients, donations, holiday, love, money, Random act of kindness, Ritual, thank you
Annual Backpack Sponsorship! - Thursday, May 31, 2012
I know that school is just getting ready to get out, but remember back to when you were a kid... Do you remember getting ready to go back to school? Although it is sad to say good bye to summer, it is always exciting picking out your school supplies for the upcoming school year. To this day, I LOVE the smell of a new box of crayons!
If you ask a teacher, there are many kids that don't come to school with school supplies, and a great number of them are foster children. When you are a foster child, there are so many ways that you are different from everyone else. You don't live with your parents, you don't have many of your own belongings, most, if not all of your clothing is second hand, you have things like attorneys, CASA workers, caseworkers and therapists that are a part of your everyday life, you likely live in a different home than your siblings do. The list goes on, and not having school supplies is just another way that it is obvious that you are different. It is nearly impossible to come out of the foster care system without deep emotional scars and without a sense of embarassment or even shame, but at Ritual, we believe that providing new school supplies to foster kids is an easy way to make them feel more like a "normal" kid!
With your tax deductible donation of just $30, we are able to purchase a new backpack and fill it with name-brand school supplies for local kids in foster care. If you've done any school supply shopping, you know that it is nearly impossible to find a backpack for $30, let alone to fill it, but we are bargin shoppers that aren't afraid to ask for deep discounts from retailers! We can stretch a buck for these great kids!
Our goal this year is to raise enough money to provide 40 kids with backpacks. That means that we have to raise $1200! Consider supporting Royal Family Kids so a foster child enjoy the start of a new school year! Thank you~Labels: back to school, backpacks, donations, RFKC
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